Load-indicator for magazines of fire-arms



(No Model.)

W. R. MILLER.

LOAD INDICATOR FOR MAGAZINES OF FIRE ARMS.

Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC IVILLIAM R. MILLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

LOAD-INDICATOR FOR MAGAZINES OF FIRE-ARMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,872, dated December18, 1888.

Application filed June 30, 1888. Serial No. 278,651. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM R. MILLER, of the city of Baltimore, andState of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in RepeatingFire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in providing a repeating-gun with a magazinehaving a sightaperture, through which its contents may be inspected, andin covering the said aperture with a transparent plate and aprotectingshutter, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the description of the said invention which follows reference is madeto the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure1 is an exterior side view of a gun provided with my invention; andFigs. 2 and 3 are enlarged sectional details of the same taken,respectively, longitudinally and transversely 0f the magazine. Fig. 4 isa longitudinal section of a part of a gun, illustrating a modificationof the invention; and Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged details of the same,also in section.

Similar letters of reference, indicate similar parts in all the figures.

Referring to Figs.1,2, and 3, A, B, and O are respectively the stock,barrel, and magazine of the improved fire-arm.

D is the magazine-spring whereby the cartridges or shells a are fed. Themagazine at a point near to the lock is prox'ided with an opening, I),which in width is considerably less than the magazine and of a lengthabout equal to a cartridge or shell. The position of the aperture b ispreferably such as to expose the magazine-spring, or a portion of thesame,when, say, one or two cartridges remain in the magazine; but it maybe placed to show that three or even more cartridges are left in themagazine.

Over the opening I), I place a transparent plate, 0, and over this platea shutter, E. The shutter E consists of a bolt, (1, confined in a tube,6, having two slots, f and situated diametrically opposite to eachother. This tube is so placed and secured in the stock A that theopening 1) may be seen through the slots f and g. The bolt d isyieldingly held, so as to close the slots f and g, and also the openingl), by means of a spring, 71., which is confined between one end of. thebolt (Z and the head of the tube. The bolt may be slid back, soas toexpose the slots f and g and the opening Z) by the finger through themedium of a pin, 1'.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6,which represent parts of a gun in which themagazine is in the rear of the lock and barrel instead of in front ofthe look, as in the other figures, the shutter consists of a hingedplate. This plate when closed is flush with the surface of the stock.

I claim- 1. In a repeating fire-arm, the magazine thereof having a slotor aperture through which its contents may be inspected, combined with ashutter to cover the said aperture and a transparent plate interposedbetween the said shutter and the perforated magazine, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

2. In a repeating fire-arm, the magazine thereof having a slot oraperture through which its contents may be in spected, combined with ashutter formed of a spring-bolt confined in a slotted or perforated tubeembedded in the stock of the said firearm, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

WILLIAM R. MILLER.

\Vitnesses:

WM. T. HOWARD, DANL. FISHER.

